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Creative Technologist / HTML5 EngineerMedialets

THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED

THE POSITION:

We lead the entire mobile advertising industry by example, and our creative technology team consists of some of the brightest and most creative frontend engineers you'll ever meet. Medialets powers the mobile and tablet ad initiatives behind many of the world's top brands, and we're growing the frontend engineering team that creates the ads and frameworks every big ad agency uses to make their ads. You'll be responsible for pushing the envelope of technical innovation of our mobile ad platform, helping to build dynamic, multi-platform ads, teaching the industry how to be successful in mobile, and will be a core member of our creative technology team.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded and self-motivated developer who has a passion for frontend technologies and the discipline to help others learn from their examples. We're looking for someone with deep experience in developing complex web apps, mobile web apps, reusable JavaScript frameworks and all of the glue that binds them. And if you've worked in the ad tech landscape before, that's even better.

RESPONSIBILITIES
This role is responsible for going from high-level concepts and requirements to developing and implementing creative functionality in the world's most visible mobile and tablet advertisements. Along the way, you'll be creating and contributing to reusable code frameworks that will be used by thousands of developers also making mobile ads. To succeed here, you'll need to be open minded, able to embrace and drive your ideas in a team, and are just as comfortable working on something alone as you are with a larger team around you. We learn new things here every day and regurlarly accomplish what others have said cannot be done.

ABOUT YOU
You've managed, implemented, documented, and maintained various front-end web applications as part of a suite of industry leading mobile advertising and rich media tools.

You want to assist in bridging the gap between technology and design.

You have the desire to work with all leading smartphone webkit and browser implementations to develop and maintain libraries of components that enable creativity and cross-device compatibility.

You strive to find the perfect balance between user experience, browser compatibility issues and page performance.

MORE ABOUT YOU
You're an expert in building web or mobile apps in Javascript, HTML(5), CSS and CSS3
You have experience working with - and ideally contributing to - the development of JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, MooTools, etc.
You have experience in developing JavaScript APIs in general
You have a healthy respect for the memory, network and CPU constraints in mobile
You get and understand the nature of web standards and browser compatibility issues
Minimum Bachelors Degree in a related field or equivalent
MORE ABOUT MEDIALETS
Medialets is the essential advertising platform for mobile, enabling high-value mobile and tablet display advertising for the world?s leading brands, agencies and publishers. With unmatched mobile advertising experience, proven technology and the industry?s most flexible creative platform, Medialets reduces the complexity of every phase of a mobile campaign?planning and buying, ad creation, ad serving and measurement. Every major agency holding group and more than 500 of the world?s biggest publishers, including BBC, BSkyB, CNN, ESPN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Weather Channel and Yahoo!, use Medialets to power their mobile and tablet campaigns. In operation since 2008, the company is based in New York City with offices in London, Chicago and Los Angeles.

We pay competitive salaries and have a comprehensive benefits package that includes company paid medical, dental and vision coverage, flexible spending account and a host of other services. We're a venture-backed company with marquee investors and a passionate board of directors and advisors who deeply believe in our mission.